Mary Lou Jepsen Quotes
Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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Adele ultimately did well in such a large way because she affects everybody, and the way that she writes seems to be popular music, not because of her skin color but because she writes great music, and it's popular in that way.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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The greatest gift I've been given is being naive, because I don't know what I can't do. And when you don't know what you can't do, you think you can do everything.
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Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
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But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies.
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I once dealt with a prima donna on a movie set. I won't say who, but his first name is a country. A communist country. Run by Fidel Castro.
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Every time I meet with the CEO of a big laptop company, they tell me they 'studied' my design.
